34 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book 11. 



The moft powerful people that we read of in hiftory, being the 

 greateft conquerors, and who themfelves were never conquered, 



lived 



H. M. S. 



9 23 31 140 



9 24 49 130 



9 26 6 120 



9 27 22 no 



9 28 38 100 



9 29 54 90 



9 31 12 80 



9 32 30 70 



9 ?>Z 50 ^Q 



9 35 50 50 



9 3^ 50 40 



N. B. This mark ( ) above the numbers on the right hand fignifies that the 



mercury was fo many degrees below (o). The barometer at 8. A. M. was 30^ 46. 

 The fudden fall of the Mercury from 70' below (o) to 250' is faid by the learned in 

 thofe matters to have been caufed by the Mercury having then come to the point of 

 congelation, and become a folid body. 



While Mr Graham was in that country, there was a gentleman of the name of 

 Hcarne, who was employed by the Company to feek for a communication betwixt 

 Hudfon's Bay and the Eaftern Ocean, that is, for the north eafl pviflage. He fct out 

 from the fettlement in Churchhill River, and went as far as Copper River, in Lati- 

 tude 71° 54*. and fpent upon the journey, going and returning, three years; and all 

 that time he was never under a roof. In this journey he travelled far in a country 

 very like to the deferts of Tartary, where there was neither wood nor water ; and 

 bis food was the flelh of buffalos and deer, which he ate raw, as he had no fire 



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